Dinesh Kamath's comparison between Sonny Corleone and Michael Corleone; the same above subject, the text of which was lost but later recovered

Today I'll talk to you about Michael Corleone and Sonny Corleone who were most important characters of the movie Godfather. The two are supposed to be brothers. But both were opposite of each other.

I strongly feel that Michael was a much more powerful character than Sonny Corleone. That's the reason why Michael turns out to be a survivor while Sonny loses his life when his enemies brutally gun him down. Sonny's weak point was his temper while Michael's strong point was his absolute coolness. Sonny could never become a God-father although he did get the opportunity to play Acting God father twice. Michael becomes the God father after his father Vito Corleone decides to retire and his brother Sonny dies in an ambush.

Michael never wanted to join the family business and he had preferred to serve his country by joining the Marines. This attitude of Michael had provoked Sonny to a great extent and he called him 'Stupid'. Sonny had underestimated Michael's power when he was alive. But their father Vito had more confidence in Michael than in Sonny. Vito turned out to be right since Michael went on to become the most successful God father who kept his family on top position in New York for a long, long time.

The fact is even the powerful families who were rivals of Corleone family dreaded Sonny a lot because Sonny was a powerful character with terrific temper and a fantastic military brain. He had the ability to terrorize the other families when the situation demanded. So these rival families wanted to see the end of him since they thought that after his exit the Corleone family could never dominate over other families. These rival families do succeed in finishing Sonny brutally but they were shocked when Michael took over Corleone's family business and he proved to be much more dangerous than Sonny. The other families were taken by surprise since they too, like Sonny, had underestimated Michael's abilities. Michael was able to avenge all those enemies who had hurt the Corleone family and he kept his family leading over all the other rival families till his natural death at a very old age.

Michael never used his fist. Sonny was superb in fist fight. Michael could talk and reason coolly which Sonny could never do. Michael proved to be a man who had much more powerful military brain than Sonny. Michael would never make any move in a hurry the way Sonny would do. These are the reasons why Michael turned out to be a much tougher character than Sonny although at the early stages Michael's abilities were totally underestimated by all while everybody were overawed by Sonny's way of functioning. But ultimately all were shocked by the cool way in which Michael took care of his mighty empire after Sonny falls a prey to his own rashness and hot-temper.

Thus Michael Corleone turns out to be the ultimate winner after initially it was wrongly felt that it would be Sonny who would win finally.